{"id":1475,"date":"2007-03-27T11:40:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-27T17:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/03\/watch-richardsons-gay-rights-speech-in-l-a\/"},"modified":"2007-03-27T11:40:00","modified_gmt":"2007-03-27T17:40:00","slug":"watch-richardsons-gay-rights-speech-in-l-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/03\/watch-richardsons-gay-rights-speech-in-l-a\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Richardson&#8217;s gay-rights speech in L.A."},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">If you\u2019re interested, here\u2019s video of Gov. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.richardsonforpresident.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bill Richardson\u2019s<\/a> speech on Saturday to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hrc.org\/Template.cfm?Section=Home&#038;CONTENTID=36030&amp;TEMPLATE=\/ContentManagement\/ContentDisplay.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">Human Rights Campaign<\/a> in <st1:place st=\"on\"><st1:city st=\"on\">Los Angeles<\/st1:city><\/st1:place> \u2013 one of the two now-infamous gay-rights speeches he gave over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">During the speech, he spoke about what is happening \u2013 or not happening \u2013 at home with domestic partner benefits.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cThe reason I have to leave is I called in my New Mexico Legislature into a special session to keep pushing my agenda, which is a full domestic partner rights act,\u201d <st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> told the group, to applause. \u201c\u2026 That\u2019s why I\u2019m going back home. \u2026 so if you excuse me after my speech, I have to go because I have to do this work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">As <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.freenewmexican.com\/terrell\" target=\"_blank\">Steve Terrell<\/a> has already pointed out on his blog, <st1:city st=\"on\">Richardson<\/st1:city> failed to mention he was headed to <st1:state st=\"on\">New York<\/st1:state> for campaign events, not back to <st1:state st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">New   Mexico<\/st1:place><\/st1:state> for the special session. He won\u2019t be back here until Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><object height=\"350\" width=\"420\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/V9FkeMfyvDE\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/V9FkeMfyvDE\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" height=\"350\" width=\"420\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019re interested, here\u2019s video of Gov. Bill Richardson\u2019s speech on Saturday to Human Rights Campaign in Los Angeles \u2013 one of the two now-infamous gay-rights speeches he gave over the weekend. During the speech, he spoke about what is happening \u2013 or not happening \u2013 at home with domestic partner benefits. \u201cThe reason I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}